This has to be extremely rare

Submitted by HireWayne on November 28th, 2020 at 3:38 PM

Michigan lost at home to multiple teams who are other winless (Penn St 0-5, MSU 0-3). 

Is impossible to justify paying Harbaugh 8 mil a year for these results.  

energyblue1

November 28th, 2020 at 3:46 PM ^

Disagree!  This program has gotten worse after the 2018 game getting basted for 62!  Fired the wrong coordinator, still has that coordinator.  Hired the coordinator to give them speed in space that can’t get a qb to play in that system, can’t get receivers ready so it creates no space and doesn’t use speed.  

Game plans are horrid, not worth going into continually.  

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A Lot of Milk

November 28th, 2020 at 3:47 PM ^

Covid season will produce these weird stats because nobody got non conference games to pad their wins

Still inexcusable results, but to me these stats are so skewed by the limited amount of games

More accurate to say Michigan lost to garbage MSU and PSU teams than make a big deal about them being winless in a conference only schedule

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StarvinMarlinJackson

November 28th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^

That's not the point. You're not judging different seasons by the same standard.

For example look at Rutgers 2014. Before beating Michigan they were 4-1 with wins over Washington State (who finished 3-9), Howard, Navy, and Tulane. In a 2020-type schedule they could easily have been winless for weeks before Gary Nova found a Michigan secondary to decimate.

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dieseljr32

November 28th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^

If this program was not in fucking disarray it would have had a golden opportunity to showcase their young talent and say, "yeah we lost alot to the NFL but we can reload" against weak competition. 

But,  instead they're going to fart around every Saturday. Covid please cancel the rest of the season? 

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WalterWhite_88

November 28th, 2020 at 4:01 PM ^

Not to defend Harbaugh/Michigan, but home/away stats mean nothing in a season where there are empty stadiums. It actually seems to be a bad thing for Michigan to play at home this year.... I think it deflates the energy out of the home team seeing no fans in a stadium that can seat 110,000. That's no excuse for Michigan's god-awful play, but it just annoys me when fans and announcers bring up how so-and-so team lost another home game, or won a big road game. Without the advantage of home fans this season, those stats mean absolutely nothing and really shouldn't count for or against a team. 

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Perkis-Size Me

November 28th, 2020 at 4:11 PM ^

If Warde doesn’t have the balls to fire Harbaugh, then the donors better make his decision for him. 

You can excuse getting worked by IU. You can excuse getting blasted by Wisconsin. You cannot excuse MSU and PSU. Both of those losses are completely, 100% inexcusable, and fireable offenses. 

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BeatIt

November 28th, 2020 at 7:50 PM ^

Perkins, not that simple. Harbaugh was a big part of Bo’s best and highest ranked team. I think Bo’s #1 priority was developing young men to be leaders and make sure they got a good education. It was never about national championships and #1 recruiting classes was it? For those that stay will be champions was about becoming good men win or lose I think. I think after the 2016 loss to OSU Harbaugh reconnected with that principle. Probably why Bo retired @ 60 yo, Michigan had gotten away from that. Hence the hiring of RichRod. As the old guard of donors aged and passed a younger group emerged steering them back to education over athletic success and Harbaugh acquiesced by his recruiting. Why many of his classes have little or none of the top 100 recruits. With some recruited before Harbaugh came some bad behavior that prompted this new culture of big business football. Or I could be completely wrong. I think the leadership in AA would rather have very good teams and a shot @ championships every 3-5 years over the consequences of student athletes not there for the right reasons. 

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Durham Blue

November 29th, 2020 at 12:40 AM ^

He's just saying that it's the first time Michigan lost to an 0-5 or worse team in the past 1350 games.  I think it would've made more sense if it was years instead of number of games.  But that's a lot of games and a shit ton of years.  So the point is that Michigan hadn't lost to an 0-5 team (or worse) in a very, very long time.

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switch26

November 28th, 2020 at 5:34 PM ^

What's even more pathetic is we have had 0 reported cases of covid from our starters, there is 0 chance i believe that we have had no cases from any starters on this team when literally every other team except michigan state ive heard of covid cases

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